Santiago de Compostela in three literary works

A maze of letters runs past the monumental area of Compostela. The spectra of writers and writers living entity the Alameda grown moss and some of the most memorable deserve a statue overlooking the church of Santa Susana or an endless story that happened in a corner of the Old Town. Yes, the stormy and fury Northwest wind spread the seeds of writing along the town and touches so many others who visit. Today we look at Santiago de Compostela in three literary works.

"Six Galician poems" by Federico Garcia Lorca. Written between 1931 and 1934 and published in 1935, these six compositions in Galician language by the poet from Granada are a unique approach to Santiago de Compostela. Lorca was so impressed with the old Santiago that gave him the first and last poem: Madrigal for the town of Santiago and The moon dances in Santiago. Clearly it is not easy to convey feelings about her role as ethereal as that experienced watching the full moon on the Praza da Quintana in one night clear and icy winter: subtle melancholy, reverie savvy... The madrigal became the most popular of the six poems thanks to a musical version that made the folk group Luar na Lubre.

Look at that white press,

transfixed watching your body!

It is the moon dancing

in Quintana of the dead.

"Thirteen Chimes" by Suso de Toro. The lyrical grows exponentially Santiago de Compostela can become mystery only if we wait a couple of hours. Suso de Toro, Compostelan author, wrote a story about the mystery and memories associated with one of the sonorous souls of Santiago: the Berenguela bell. Juxtaposed narrative in which the characters are giving witness to the story each other, opening the interpretive possibilities. Intrigue, artistic essay, dream... Thirteen Chimes debt is a good novel approach to Santiago de Compostela beyond topical guides. Here an excerpt from the description of the Obradoiro Square.

"The canon opened the gate and stood there looking onto the Plaza del Obradoiro without people, like a lake of stone covered with water and swept by gusts of wind. The light was not daylight, it was the light of a time that did not correspond or day or night, as if born of a wet time in the ocean and inundate the country and the city "

"Compostela and its angel" of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The relationship between Ferrol and Compostela has always been happy for letters. Here he lived the great philologist-Calero Carvalho and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester dedicated a novel to the city, one of their intellectual mothers. Compostela and his angel is a love letter, a sentimental geography for a big village made of stone that opens like a foreign poem by understanding just look Ballester. For us, this fragment of the novel has not lost a day of validity:

"Compostela is around the bell. The bells create everything day by day, century to century, whilst only telling the hours. And the fog is chaos where the bell is taking things. First, their own sound bronze tower where hangs, and your name. Then the cut stone, domes, crests, facades and patios. Lastly, the streets and squares, and the saints in their niches, and that devoid of it are ornament of covers, and those others who appear lost in a canvas wall, coming from God knows where, to signal the centuries in the mutilated or worn face. "